How to protect yourself from identity theft for free

8:26 PM,
Nov. 11, 2012

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Kim Komando | USA TODAY

It's a bad time to be living in South Carolina if you value your privacy. A hacker struck the South Carolina Department of Revenue and stole 3.6 million Social Security numbers and data from 387,000 credit and debit card accounts. The sad part is that this was the third successful attack in two months! That doesn't really inspire confidence.

South Carolina is providing those affected with one year of free credit monitoring, but that's a small comfort when hackers have your information.

If you don't live in South Carolina and think your data is safe, think again. All that stands between you and ...

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How to protect yourself from identity theft for free

It's a bad time to be living in South Carolina if you value your privacy. A hacker struck the South Carolina Department of Revenue and stole 3.6 million Social Security numbers and data from 387,000